bison vs buffalo
Definitions
noun
- any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns
Examples
This steak house has organically farmed beef and locally raised bison.
He had witnessed diminutive bison with semicircular horns; animals "of a bluish lead color, about the size of a goat, with a head and beard like him, and a single horn, slightly inclined forward from the perpendicular"; and "a strange amphibious creature, of a spherical form, which rolled with great velocity across the pebbly beach" of a lunar island.
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
Definitions
noun
- meat from an American bison
- any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
- large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
verb
- intimidate or overawe
Examples
Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Even without captain Mats Sundin, the Toronto Maple Leafs are still alive in the playoff chase.
We came across a herd of Cape buffalo grazing in a field, their eyes glassy when hit by the spotlight.
